"I'm Worcester's King Canute - my top 10 tips to save your home from flooding"

A man dubbed ‘Worcester's King Canute’ after building his own flood defences to protect his £600,000 home has shared his tips on how to "stop the tide". Nick Upton, 60, won the admiration of his neighbours when he kept his 17th century property safe by surrounding it with a wall and pumps last winter. Dramatic aerial pictures showed the four-bedroom detached house circled by rising flood water after the River Severn burst its banks earlier this year. Nick and his wife Annie, 50, bought the house, worth £600,000, in the pretty village of Pixham, Worcs., in 2016, but it has been anything but plain sailing.